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Am I missing something?

The guy has more obvious than is obviously possible cheated in the scummiest possible way, yet in a brief bit on BBC coverage all the players are giving him credit as a "great family man" and really "honest and genuine guy"

WTF?

How can any pro snooker player go on national TV and say these things about the guy, even if you thought he was a decent bloke or if you were mates with him surely you never be seen publicly defending him. Or has everyone just decided to forget about it?

Bit bad imo

If you bothered to give some thought to the incident, it would be obvious that Higgins had no intention to fix matches.

Yeah right

Used to love Higgins but he is clearly a scumbag. Can't stand him now. Ridiculous how the cheating was glossed over when he won last year

Lol - his whole defence was comedy...I''m with Dave

Lol, lets be clear about this, Higgins got away with the ban he got, if every iffy game had been taken into account he would be sat in the bar now.

Most if the players stick up for him coz most of em had been at it themselves.

Check out mark allens twitter spat this week with stephen lee who is another who used' the shaggy defence' ie, ' it wasnt me'

Allen took offence to lee giving him stick after his outburst last week, allen tweeted he hoped higginson beat him but that lee had probably backed him to do so.

That tells you all you need to know about what lee has got away with and everyone knows it too.

Yeah makes me sick, should have been banned for life, bent twat.

Worst thing that could happen to the game is maguire winning this year, that will be 2 consecutive cheats to lift the trophy.

He can always forget his chalk if he's in a tight spot.

No just the odd frame here and there, in fact it was no worse than those Pakistani bowlers...

Are we talking about the NOTW story here or am i missing something?

if you dont like bent ppl do not go to china

Or Brighton

Or here.

http://www.genealogyalongtherockies.com/colorado/bent/cobe.htm

I was "bothered" to pretty close attention to the story, most importantly the bit where he is sat on camera telling the guy which offshore account to ship the 300k to whilst re-assuring him how easy it is to throw a frame in a snooker match. The excuse of "I was scared they were mafia so I played along" doesn't really cut the mustard with me.

What did Maguire do?

My recollection was that the NOTW interview was subtitled and dubbed and that Higgins wasn't saying half the stuff that the tape showed. It looked like they tried to set up a sting, didn't have enough to go on so doctored it to suit their agenda. 

Didn't really follow this at the time.  What was he doing there in the first place?

He went with his agent, who was also the number 2 in the WPBSA as I recall, to talk about setting up a new tournament in eastern Europe, when they got to the meeting thats when the talk started of throwing frames. It was fairly obvious his agent was in on it from the start ie that's who NOTW targeted to get Higgins there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8224650.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8224650.stm)

Later cleared but many are still suspicious.

http://www.snookerpa.com/news/press-releases/press-release---maguire-and-burnett-cleared.html (http://www.snookerpa.com/news/press-releases/press-release---maguire-and-burnett-cleared.html)

higgins is as bent as a ten bob note simple as imo !!!!

The spectrum of punishments handed out for cheating in sport is quite wide isn't it? Pakistan bowlers get prison for spot-fixing, Dwain Chambers gets life ban for drug-taking, Higgins gets six-month ban for frame-rigging, and Luis Suarez gets boos from the crowd for swan-diving. 

that wld be teh libel

I thought for something to be libel it actually had to be untrue.

he wasn't banned for frame rigging (the defence you are probably after is something along the lines of his reputation was damaged anyway)

mate, seriously, he was bang to rights many times before the NOTW scoop, a six month ban was lenient, contrived by Hearn's so called investigation team. He got off lightly, but not as lightly as the other main protagonist.

You don't really think the NOTW just happened to pick Higgins and his manager out of the air to expose the cheats do you?

that wld be the notw that hacks the phone of a dead girl to get a story? Whether you like it or not Higgins wasn't banned for match fixing and any publication that stated he was would be asked to retract any such statement

this doesn't change the fact that he prolly did rig the frames though.

Higgins was found guilty of 'giving the impression' he was going to cheat. People might say that's not very serious. Those people should give their wife the impression they're going to cheat and see what happens.

He quite blatantly got off very lightly, proper joke.

Is this the snooker thread for the Worlds then? If so can somebody pipe up when Judd becomes a lay for the title please.

seems that when you are well known and bent you either get away with it or get a six month ban when you have been throwing frames and then caught on camera haggling for money to throw frames. If you are Joe Jogia and you attempt a bent frame coup, then pull out of the event when you become aware that people know what you are planning, so don't actually play the hooky frame you have set up you get a 2 year ban.


Barry's world is a strange one, tho he is consistent when it comes to dealing with money makers.

Another bad day in a long line. Amazing how many people seemed to have maximum confidence in betting the two big priced outsiders in singles and doubles in these two games. Just about every game that Thanawat plays in that has a decent market move against him ends up with him getting beaten.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/snooker/23607979